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above Resolution be forwarded to the Home Secretary,
to the several members of the Cabinet, to the
Corporation of the City of London, to the several
Guilds of the City, to each Yestry and District
Board, and to the several Boards of Guardians in
London."
The Yestry approved of the resolution of the Yestry of
St. James, and appointed three Delegates to a Conference
called by the St. James' Yestry upon the subject. The
matter is still under consideration.
PARLIAMENTARY.
Artizans' Dwellings Act (1868) Extension Bill.
This Bill having been considered by the Yestry, the
following resolution was come to thereon, viz.:—
"That the provisions of the Act should be carried out
by the various Yestries and District Boards of the
Metropolis as heretofore, and not by the Metropolitan
Board of Works as proposed by the Bill."
"That the last paragraph of Clause 12, as follows:—
'Fourthly, that pending such appeal, no work
shall be done nor proceedings taken, under such
order, until after the determination of such appeal
unless such appeal cease to be prosecuted'—
should be omitted from the Bill."
The Yestry petitioned Parliament for an alteration of
the Bill, in accordance with the above resolutions. The
Bill was considerably amended by a Select Committee, and
passed into law.
Contagious Diseases (Animals) Amendment Bill (1878).
The attention of the Yestry having been particularly